US Air National Guard - DoD Private Cloud Initiative –

How Virtualization Saved $45 Million in

Power\Cooling and Life Cycle Management

Mike Colson, Tec-Pros

Jason Scanga, VMware

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Jason Scanga, CIM Solutions Architect

VMware Public Sector S.E.T.

jscanga@vmware.com

www.vm5280.com

Mike Colson, Director of IT

m.colson@tec-pros.com

@mike_colson

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OPSEC Preface

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Operations Transformation in the Cloud Era

IT Ops in cloud era – is different than IT Operations in Client/Server era.

Success – requires more than incremental change addressed by continuous

improvement, lean methodologies, best practices etc...

Cloud Era – requires Ops Transformation.

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More Virtualization, Greater Success

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Cost per VM hour

(2GB instance)

20¢

18¢

16¢

14¢

12¢

10¢

8¢

6¢

4¢

2¢

0¢

30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55% 60% 65% 70% 75% 80%

Standardization

and pooling 1

Utilization

Automation

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Momentum in Virtualization - Rates Continue to Increase

19%

31%

44%

59%

73%

2009 2010 2011 2012 In 2 Years

% of Workloads Virtualized

Source: VMware customer survey, Jan 2010, Jun 2011, Mar 2012

Question: Please indicate percentage of x86 server operating system instances (e.g., Windows, Linux) that run in virtual machines

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Evolution of Server Virtualization Continues

Source: IDC Market Analysis Perspective: Cloud Virtualization System Software, December 2012, Doc # 238638

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Federal Budget Circus

What we know

• FY13 Spending Cuts for DoD $37 Billion

• 11 Days of Furloughs for 700,000 Gov’t Employees

What is being proposed

• One round of BRAC in 2015

• Program Budget Shifts or Cancelations

• Reductions in Force (RIF)

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Fuzzy Math or Factual Funds

ANG Civil Engineering provided statistical input to findings based

on 5 year ROI

US National Average for power cost $.13 per KWh

10 to 1 Server consolidation saves 47.52 KW per day,

17,344.80 per year

• Annual Savings of Virtualizing just 10 servers is $2,254 on power alone

Cooling is the biggest energy consumer in the datacenter

• 10 Servers = 180,201.12 BTU per day

• 1 Virtual Host = 18,020.11 BTU per day

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Lifecycle as a Service

Lifecycle Data was pulled from ANG Lifecycle Management Team

Average Lifecycle of a server is 5 years

Average server cost $7,500 w/ 3 yr support

• Annual Support for years 4/5 $1,725

Average virtual host cost $10,000 w/ 3 yr support

• Annual Support for years 4/5 $2,300

Savings on 10 to 1 virtualization $94,900 over 5 years

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VDC

ANG PHASE I

ASSESSMENT

ANG PHASE II ANG PHASE III

Virtualization Is for Everybody

ANG PHASE II

DESIGN &

IMPLEMENTATION

ANG PHASE III

OPERATIONAL

CHANGES

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US Air National Guard Use Case Prior to Virtualizing

5-7 full racks at each base

50-75 server and storage devices

Each system required its own power supply, management system

Typical base NCC required 57925 BTU per day to operate

Space, Cooling and Power

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US Air National Guard Use Case Prior to Virtualizing

The ANG was on a break fix maintenance contract

The average cost to refresh a single server (total of 50 per base)

would be around $7500.00 per server, with Microsoft Licenses

came to a total of $942,523 per location

Refresh Savings

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VDC

ANG PHASE I

ASSESSMENT

ANG PHASE II

DESIGN &

IMPLEMENTATION

ANG PHASE III

Design to Virtualize and Virtualize First

ANG PHASE III

SAVINGS

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Leading to a

More Flexible and

Mission Ready

Workforce

Enabling Greater

Business Agility…

Customer Directive

Enable the ANG by

Simplifying and Automating IT in the Cloud Era

Optimizing IT

Efficiency…

Enabling Business Transformation thru IT Transformation

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IT Mandate

IT will always be pressured to …

enable greater business agility,

while becoming more efficient.

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IT Is Traditionally Forced to Focus on Non-Value-Add Activity

Source: VMware Fortune 100 Customers

Overwhelming complexity

+

Brittle infrastructure

=

< 30% of IT budgets

goes to innovation

IT Investment

42% Infrastructure

Maintenance

30% Application

Maintenance

23% Application

Investment

5% Infrastructure

Investment

Mission Agility

Depends on IT Agility

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Obviously Something Isn’t Working Very Well…

…so what should we do?

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Drive IT Agility to Increase Business Value

Core Benefits

1. Reduce the Complexity

to simplify operations

and maintenance

2. Dramatically Lower Costs

to redirect investment into

value-add opportunities

3. Enable Flexible, Agile IT Service Delivery

to meet and anticipate the

needs of the business

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ANG Goals

Consolidation – Reduce the number of servers and hardware

variances for security and baseline

Containment – Curb variance and sprawl by standardizing and

providing centralized oversight

Availability – Introducing virtualization to increase application

availability and data recoverability

…there are many more benefits of virtualization

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Hypervisor Selection Made Easy

Proven in the Trenches

• 400,000+ VMware Customers

• 100% of Fortune 100

• 100% of Fortune Global 100

• 99% of Fortune 1000

• 97% of Fortune Global 500

Supported by Many

• Best-in-class Commercial Support

• 44,700+ Solution Providers

• 59,000+ VMware Certified Professionals

• Active and engaged VMware community

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VMware vSphere Platform

Application

Services

Infrastructure

Services

Automation

VMware vSphere

Security

• vShield Endpoint

• Security APIs

• Hot Add

• DRS/Storage DRS

• Profile-Driven Storage

• Auto Deploy

• I/O Controls

• High Availability

• Fault Tolerance

• vMotion/Storage vMotion

• Data Protection

• Replication

Availability

Network Storage

• Distributed Switch

• SR-IOV Support

• Thin Provisioning

• VMFS

• Storage APIs

• Storage Appliance

• Hypervisor

• Memory Overcommit

Compute

Management Services (vCenter Operations Management, vCenter Server, vCenter Orchestrator)

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VMware: Consistent Delivery, Continuous Innovation

“…and the company doesn't

show any signs of relinquishing

that title any time soon…”

Paul Ferrill, ServerWatch (May 7, 2012)

2011

2010

2009

2008 2007 2006

VI 3 HA

DRS

VCB

NAS & iSCSI support

4-way vSMP

16GB RAM per VM

VI 3.5 Embedded, OS-free

hypervisor

Storage vMotion

Guided consolidation

256GB host memory

support

Large memory page NPT

support

vSphere 4.1 Memory Compression

Storage and Network

I/O Control

DRS Host Affinity

Linked mode

Boot from SAN

vStorage APIs

8-way vMotion

3000 VMs per cluster

vSphere 5 Storage DRS

Profile-driven Storage

Auto Deploy

Improved HA engine

Metro vMotion

vSphere web client

vCenter Server Appliance

32-way vSMP

1 TB RAM per VM vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance

vNetwork Distributed

Switch

vShield Zones

Host Profiles

Thin Provisioning

8-way vSMP

255GB RAM per VM

2012

vSphere 5.1 vSphere Data Protection

vSphere Replication

Improved Auto Deploy

Improved Distributed

Switch

vCenter Single Sign-on

64-way vSMP

“VMware has been a market

leader in virtualization as long as

there's been a market…”

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US Air National Guard Use Case After Virtualizing

NCC-R is a single rack with 5 servers and a single Storage Area

Network (SAN)

Current utilization between 5-10% of the 5 server CPU capacity and

1/3 of the SAN capacity

NCC-R platform requires 12,902 BTU per day to operate, resulting

in $13,267,982.69 in five year power and cooling savings

Space, Cooling and Power

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US Air National Guard Use Case After Virtualizing

The average cost of the NCC-R server (requires more memory)

is $10,000 each

The cost of the storage array is $50,000 for a total cost of $100,000

MS Data Center license were used to reduce cost resulting in a

savings of $505,873.98 per base or $40,469,918.40 over 5 years

Refresh Savings

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VDC

ANG PHASE I

ASSESSMENT

ANG PHASE II

DESIGN &

IMPLEMENTATION

ANG PHASE III

OPERATIONAL

CHANGES

Operations Simplified

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US Air National Guard - Before

Platform Sustainment was complex, manually intensive and

required a lot of local touch management support

Impossible to identify the proper life-cycle management for

each location

Ease of Use

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US Air National Guard - Before

ANG operators were forced with sustaining multiple baselines and

images across each server (e.g. patch status, configuration

settings)

Hardware across the enterprise varied and firmware versions and

builds were inconsistent

There was very little to no ability to assess backup and DR

capability at each location

Consistent Baseline

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US Air National Guard - After

The NOSC maintains a gold (STIG’d, standard) single image that

are deployed across each NCC

Scripted baseline checks to ensure consistency

A centralized backup solution which gives GNOSC operators

visibility, consistency and control of backups and DR across

deployed locations

Resulting Consistent Baseline

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US Air National Guard - After

Single pane of glass the operators from the NOSC

Full command and control support of the NCC-R platform

Local operators can be granted access to make changes on an as

needed basis

Life-cycle management of the entire solution becomes a

manageable task and completed with no down-time to the NCC-R

platform

Ease of Use

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Meeting the Mission of the Future

Operate as one enterprise

Rapid Deployment of Mission Applications

Business Needs and Requirements

Meet change mission requirements

Cloud Services

Cloud Consumer

Enforce Governance and Control

Cloud Admin

Cloud Services

Source: Server Provisioning Automation: Vendor Landscape,

Donna Scott, Ronni J. Colville, February 3, 2011.

Time to provision virtual servers

4-6 hours over multiple days even weeks

Storage Virtual

Step 1 Step 2

Network

Step 3 Step 4 Step N

Apps Track

Self

Service

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Enablement Through Virtualization

The ANG took to virtualization early with Datacenter

virtualization first

This was soon followed by the base level deployments

Currently the branch units are finalizing their virtual infrastructure

deployment

This solution has been replicated on VMware through out the ANG

environment at all levels

Virtualization has become the de facto standard with this

deployment being used as the spring board for VDI, Application

Delivery and Backups across the cloud

Centralized management and security are just some of the

operational advantages gained through virtualizing

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Cloud Computing is an that leverages the efficient pooling

of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service.

Pooling

From machines to highly

elastic resource pools, with on-

demand capacity

Zero-Touch Infrastructure

Policy-driven automation of

provisioning, deployment and

management

Self-Service

Easy access with policy-

based provisioning and

deployment

Control

Application-aware

infrastructure with built-in

availability, scalability, security

and performance guarantees

Open & Interoperable

Application mobility between

clouds, based on open

standards

Leverage Existing

Investments

Benefits of cloud computing to

existing applications and

datacenters

Efficiency thru Utilization

and Automation Agility with Control Freedom of Choice

Meeting the Mission of the Future

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Other VMware Activities Related to This Session

Group Discussions:

OPT1004-GD

IT Financial Management for the Cloud with Khalid Hakim

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THANK YOU

US Air National Guard - DoD Private Cloud Initiative –

How Virtualization Saved $45 Million in

Power\Cooling and Life Cycle Management

Mike Colson, Tec-Pros

Jason Scanga, VMware

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